Upper Peninsula of Michigan Percent Change in Population 1990—2000

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Overall, the population of the U.P.'s 15 counties
grew a scant 1.2 percent. The U.P. bucked the common trend of seeing
large counties grow and smaller counties decline. Marquette Countyeasily
the UP's most populatedregistered the largest population decline
at 9 percent, and the city of Marquette lost almost 11 percent.
Meanwhile, six counties posted double-digit gains, only one of which
had more than 12,000 people in 2000.

Part of Marquette's population decline was the result of the closure
of Sawyer Air Force Basehome to several thousand military
personnel and their familiesin 1995. The majority of the U.P.'s
11 cities with more than 5,000 people lost people in the last decade,
while population gains were strongest in townships.